Happy Friday, everybody! A collection of my favorites as well as two guest posts from this week:
Investing Articles
- Index Funds: The Oatmeal of the Investing World from Financial Ducks in a Row
- This Just In: Suze Turns Bearish from Bad Money Advice
- Low-Minimum Index Funds and Commission-Free ETFs from The Finance Buff
- The Odds of Disability Are Themselves Odd from Ron Lieber at NYT
Other Money-Related Articles
- How to Refer a Friend for a Job from Money Smart Life
- New Home, New Expenses from Five Cent Nickel (post written by Laura)
- Stiglitz: It’s the Economists, Stupid from Monevator
- Should I E-File My Taxes or Mail Them? from Four Pillars
Oblivious Investor on Tour
- How to Pick a Winning Bond Fund hosted by Dough Roller
- How to Turn Financial Peer Pressure Around hosted by MoneyNing
Blog Carnivals
- Carnival of Personal Finance hosted by Get Rich Slowly
- Stock Market Fast Swings hosted by FastSwings
- The Best of the Best in Money and Personal Finance hosted by Len Penzo
- 1031 Exchange Carnival hosted by BES1031
- Carnival of Mutual Funds hosted by Beat Mutual Funds
- Carnival of Financial Planning hosted by The Skilled Investor
Thanks for reading. I hope you enjoy your respective weekends.
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Just read the Bad Money Advice article via your link Mike – loved it, especially the debate in the comments. Thanks too for including me in your roundup. (I can’t believe you weren’t tempted to go for my active China fund series? (100% joking!
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Have a good weekend!
Hope you have a great weekend too, Mike. Thanks for the link! Enjoyed all your links this week, as usual!
jb
Thanks for the link!
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